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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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